Tag: William Blum

By Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor The last time America faced a government shutdown (2013) William Blum, “the thinking man’s Chomsky,” pointed out that the CIA-influenced Washington Post used the occasion to lie about the 1975 CIA coup against Australia, saying the coup was just a “government shutdown”: Getting your history from the American daily press By William Blum (Dec. 2013) During the US federal government shutdown in October over a budgetary dispute, Washington Post columnist Max Fisher wondered if there had ever been anything like this in another country. He decided that “there actually is one foreign precedent: Australia did this once.…

Listen HERE I just learned that William Blum, author of Killing Hope, and other blistering critiques of US empire, has passed away. According to someone close to him: “He had failed kidneys and a stroke. His son Alex is attending to affaires. I am told the IPS will hold his archives and book collection. His own books are still available. He wrote 5 books and published the Anti-Empire Report to 1,000 subscribers.” William Blum was one of the many Jewish people (ethnic not religious in his case…and he wasn’t even very ethnic, being a universalist) who could be considered representatives of the…

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In the spring of 2008, I emailed Noam Chomsky to invite him on my radio show. He agreed, we scheduled a date, and I spread the news. Then, seemingly out of the blue, he sent me an angry email backing out of the interview… Read the full article: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/11/05/chomsky-emails/

Truth Jihad Radio Wed. 12/21/11, 3-5 pm Central, American Freedom Radio (archived here.) Call-in: (402) 237-2525 or post your questions to my Facebook page. First hour: William Blum, that illustrious critic of American empire (I call him “the thinking man’s Chomsky”) is the author of the best book ever published about the crimes of empire, Killing Hope. Blum offers qualified support for the Occupy movement: The education which Occupy has caused to be thrust upon the citizenry — about corporate abuse and criminality, political corruption, inequality, poverty, etc., virtually all unprosecuted — would be highly significant if America were a…

Truth Jihad Radio Fri. 3/4/11, 1-3 pm Central, American Freedom Radio (archived here.) Call-in number: (402) 237-2525 or post your questions to my Facebook page. First hour: Leading US Empire critic William Blum, “the thinking man’s Chomsky.” William Blum is the author of Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, which documents an “American holocaust” of millions of people killed and tens of millions who have had their lives ruined by US military and CIA aggression against dozens of nations who never attacked or threatened us. We will discuss topics covered in Blum’s latest Anti-Empire Report:…